NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program Eastern Forest Soil Condition
These datasets consist of soil maps generated to assess baselines, drivers and trends for soil health and stability within the NSW Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) regions. <br>
The maps are organised into empirical soil maps, digital soil maps, and data cube maps. <br>
Empirical soil maps consists of four products. Maps include topsoil pH, carbon, Emerson Aggregate Stability and Soil Profile Quality Confidence. Each map consists of 2,162 units. Maps were generated using the most representative soil profile for each unit available within the Soil and Land Information System (SALIS). The 2008 woody vegetation coverage was used as baseline. Maps reflect values when the sampling occurred with temporal changes not being accounted for. Locations with missing or of poor quality data are identified, providing a confidence rating map as part of the evaluation process.<br>
Digital soil maps include map products of key soil condition indicators covering the Regional Forest Agreement regions of eastern NSW. Raster maps of key soil indicators, such as soil carbon, pH, bulk density, hillslope erosion and others, were created at 100 m resolution. For each key soil indicator, maps include baseline (approximately 2008) levels as well as trends of change resulting from different human and natural disturbances such as forest harvesting, uncontrolled stock grazing, climate change and bush fire. <br>
Data cube maps include time series of soil organic carbon (SOC) between January 1990 and December 2020 for the Regional Forest Agreement regions of eastern NSW. Products provide estimates of SOC concentrations and associated trends through time. Modelling was carried out using a data cube platform incorporating machine learning space-time framework and geospatial technologies. Important covariates required to drive this spatio-temporal modelling were identified using the Recursive Feature Elimination algorithm (RFE). <br>
A web mapping application on the NSW Spatial Collaboration Portal depicts these datasets. Access the webapp through the link below:<br>
https://portal.spatial.nsw.gov.au/portal/home/item.html?id=af9c71935f024f4a8f64cb39f5eba007
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-04-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-07-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The dataset was collected to assess soil condition in the forests of eastern NSW
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
Extent
- Description
- Eastern NSW Regional Forest Agreement Regions
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1990-01-01 2021-01-02
- Title
- Moyce MC, Gray JM, Wilson BR, Jenkins BR, Young MA, Ugbaje SU, Bishop TFA, Yang X, Henderson LE, Milford HB, Tulau MJ, 2021. Determining baselines, drivers and trends of soil health and stability in New South Wales forests: NSW Forest Monitoring & Improvement Program. Version 1.1
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Emerson Aggregate Test
- pH
- EAT
- Soil Condition
- FMIP
- Forest Monitoring Improvement Program
- Digital Soil Maps
- Empirical Soil Maps
- Spatio-temporal data cube maps
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- NSW Eastern Forest Soil Condition Report
- OnLine resource
- NSW Eastern Forest Soil Condition Digital Soil Maps
- OnLine resource
- NSW Eastern Forest Soil Condition Empirical Soil Maps
- OnLine resource
- NSW Eastern Forest Soil Condition Data Cube Maps
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4283
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/f6d98822-5e4f-4096-9a15-0629fa0c3eeb
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/f6d98822-5e4f-4096-9a15-0629fa0c3eeb
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-06-08T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:10:57.820959+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
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